Transformers 2 Review

Loud and even louder. This sequel is a mixed bag for myself. First off, I did like the first Transformers film a lot. There was definitely a lot to love about the original and I had a lot of entertainment from it. Which brings us to this sequel. This sequel has a lot of trade offs in which some aspects are better and some aspects are worse.

On the positive side, the action sequences are much more better and bigger than the previous film. Michael bay definitely proves that he is a master with shooting action sequences and he definitely shows his talent in each frame of the big set pieces. Each action sequence eclipses what the previous action scene had in it's previous set piece. the biggest improvement is the ROBOTS! The CGI is as masterful and better looking than the previous film's CGI. The Robots are so highly detailed that you are just going to be amazed by the film. The robots covered a wide range and they get more and more crowd pleasing. They provide for some fantastic action sequences and are huge crowd pleasers! For those who were disappointed with Megatron in the first film, you won't be disappointed in this film. He has a much bigger role in this film. The editing of the film also is more improved than the last film. Bay has heard our prayers for a more cohesive editing style for a transformers and he delivered.

Onto the negatives. These all stem from story-line and the script. I didn't really connect to the film as I did the last time. There are some moments in this story line where you just have to kind of take big leaps of faith, even for this material. The plot makes no sense whatsoever! You can smell the fact that Michael Bay wrote this film and had the writers (Kurtzman, Orci, and Kruger: The same team who gave us the great STAR TREK film this film!) try to connect his shitty script to make some sense. Another improvement is that the film was seem-lying focusing on was Sam and the transformers relationship and then they dump it out the window! There is a twist that had me question where are the boundaries in the Decepticon's "transformations?" It becomes too much at one point and it becomes almost comedic to where it pulled me out of the film. The film could have done without this "human" transformation, it was just weird and juvenile.

The other compliant with this film is from the actors and the story. I couldn't connect to the emotions and the characters in the film. One problem stems from the new villain of the film "The Fallen." The backstory behind how these transformers are on Earth seemed a bit shoe-horned to buy it. What I didn't like with the edition of The Fallen was the fact that they turned Megatron into Darth Vadar with their master and apprentice relationship. I also thought that some of the humor didn't belong in this film and it seemed real out of place. Another big problem is that the Transformers are not interesting at the least! They are boring me! Character development (if you can call it that) was horrible and sacrificed for the great action sequences.

One of the biggest complaints I have about this film, is that is it downright overly offensive at times. With the transformers that play radical racial stereotypes that just don't fit in the film and you get the sense that Bay let his ego get to his head and just put whatever he felt was funny into the film. It was something that I just thought the film definitely didn't need and it was just out of place. This film just feels as if the bad jokes from Michael Bay's other films (Bad Boys, Armageddon, and Pearl Harbor) have made their way into this film, 10 fold!

Overall, I'd place this film right next to the original. Some improvements, but it is very flawed. It's as entertaining and awesome as it can be expected. Overall, I'd say this is a MATINEE to see it on a big screen. This is definitely meant for the big screen. It's a summer action film, but it is very flawed. definitely not Bay's masterpiece, but I liked it fine as dumb summer entertainment and it was ok. Check it out on the big screen because this definitely dumb summer entertainment, but don't try to take this movie seriously at all. A supervisor from work was angry that the whole theater laughed at the screening, and there is no way you can go through the whole film without laughing your ass off! Go see it, and just turn your brain off. For those of you who are going to pay to see this film in IMAX, there is some sequences shot for IMAX, but MICHAEL FUCKIN BAY IS NOT A CHRISTOPHER NOLAN!!!! The IMAX sequences are weird for the shots that Bay decided to choose to shoot on IMAX. THE DARK KNIGHT was a fucking technical achievement in IMAX, but Bay seems to have only a case of "IMAX-envy" from DARK KNIGHT's record breaking numbers at imax, that he wanted to try the same thing. When the film comes out on BLU-RAY, it's going to be a near schizophrenic transfer that will drive people nuts! I wouldn't say it's really bad, but I'd say it's everything I thought it was going to be, only worse. Check it out once in the summer and you'll never see it again.

Disapointed by Transformers...(sigh)